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title: Deuteronomy 15:22 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. Who acts: Thou, unclean. Deuteronomy 15:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Deuteronomy 15:22 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

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**Who acts:** Thou, unclean · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** blindness

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This is Deuteronomy 15:22 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, unclean), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:DEU:454
# text = Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hart	hart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | Thou | blindness |  |  |  | within thy gates | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | may | the unclean | blindness |  |  |  | as the gazelle and the hart; alike *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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בִּשְׁעָרֶ֖יךָ תֹּאכֲלֶ֑נּוּ הַטָּמֵ֤א וְהַטָּהוֹר֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו כַּצְּבִ֖י וְכָאַיָּֽל׃

[Deuteronomy 15:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.15.22/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:DEU:454` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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